There've been a few articles on that topic over time, though I don't have any links handy. Databases don't even enter the basic processing infrastructure, as th

There've been a few articles on that topic over time, though I don't have any links handy. Databases don't even enter the basic processing infrastructure, as they're dealing with on the order of terabytes of new data per second! I thing they even had to connect their cluster together with fiberoptics just to be able to handle all the data traffic!